Crossword clues for freemasonry
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Freemasonry \Free"ma`son*ry\, n. The institutions or the practices of freemasons.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from freemason + -ry.
Wiktionary
n. 1 fellowship and sympathy among a number of people 2 Strange customs which resemble Freemasons'. 3 The institutions, precepts, and rites of the Freemasons
WordNet
n. a natural or instinctive fellowship between people of similar interests; "he enjoyed the freemasonry of the Press"
Freemasons collectively [syn: Masonry]
Wikipedia
Freemasonry or Masonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients. The degrees of freemasonry retain the three grades of medieval craft guilds, those of Apprentice, Journeyman or fellow (now called Fellowcraft), and Master Mason. These are the degrees offered by Craft (or Blue Lodge) Freemasonry. Members of these organisations are known as Freemasons or Masons. There are additional degrees, which vary with locality and jurisdiction, and are usually administered by different bodies than the craft degrees.
The basic, local organisational unit of Freemasonry is the Lodge. The Lodges are usually supervised and governed at the regional level (usually coterminous with either a state, province, or national border) by a Grand Lodge or Grand Orient. There is no international, world-wide Grand Lodge that supervises all of Freemasonry; each Grand Lodge is independent, and they do not necessarily recognise each other as being legitimate.
Modern Freemasonry broadly consists of two main recognition groups. Regular Freemasonry insists that a volume of scripture is open in a working lodge, that every member profess belief in a Deity, that no women are admitted, and that the discussion of religion and politics is banned. Continental Freemasonry is now the general term for the "liberal" jurisdictions who have removed some, or all, of these restrictions.
Usage examples of "freemasonry".
The Carbonari were a secret political society that flourished mainly in Italy and France in the early nineteenth century, probably connected with Freemasonry.
Freemasonry is continual effort to exalt the nobler nature over the ignoble, the spiritual over the material, the divine in man over the human.
After a time the Temples of Greece and the School of Pythagoras lost their reputation, and Freemasonry took their place.
The Hermetic Science of the early Christian ages, cultivated also by Geber, Alfarabius, and others of the Arabs, studied by the Chiefs of the Templars, and embodied in certain symbols of the higher Degrees of Freemasonry, may be accurately defined as the Kabalah in active realization, or the Magic of Works.
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This is a mistaken view: the man who guesses the secret of Freemasonry, and to know it you must guess it, reaches that point only through long attendance in the lodges, through deep thinking, comparison, and deduction.
Besides all those wonderful treasures, he possessed, but under lock and key, all the paraphernalia of freemasonry.
Rochebaron, obtained for me the favour of being initiated in the sublime trifles of Freemasonry.
Burgomasters' Lodge, and this was a great distinction, for, contrary to the rules of Freemasonry, no one but the twenty-four members who compose the lodge is admitted, and these twenty-four masons were the richest men on the Exchange.
He was a magician, too, and he understood that there was a freemasonry among magicians and that one never gave away the tricks of another.
Manly P Hall, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, Macoy Publishing, Richmond, Virginia, 1923, p.
Illumination was a brand of pentecostalism which was persecuted by orthodox Christianity for centuries and had become lodged in Freemasonry through a complex historical process which is impossible to explain without a major digression.
Illumination was a brand of Pentecostalism which was persecuted by orthodox Christianity for centuries and had become lodged in Freemasonry through a complex historical process which is impossible to explain without a major digression.
Odlin, Ron Parker, Ann Chapman, Dick Lodge, Olan Watkins and many members of the Compuserve Masonic Forum for information on Freemasonry and Irregular Lodges, circa 1755 (which was agood bitprior to the establishment of the Scottish Rite, so let's not bother writing me about that, shall we?
Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Washington, D.